Burglar threatens homeowners with a carved potato
A 41-year-old man has been arrested after breaking into someone's home and threatening them with a potato.
Residents of South Lake Tahoe in California will never look at fried chips the same after news of an unusual burglary made local headlines.
A 41-year-old man, identified as William James Best, has been arrested after he broke into a woman's home and threatened her. He did not have any dangerous weapons with him but he was wielding something strange: a raw potato.
In a story that is made more menacing by the unlikelihood of the facts, William forcefully entered the home of a woman who had apparently been having an argument with his girlfriend armed with a potato into which he had carved the first initial of the homeowner's name. He was reportedly using the vegetable to threaten her.
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There has been no explanation for why he attempted to write the woman's name into the vegetable, but when police asked William why he had a potato with him in the first place, he told them he believed it would "increase his punching power".
Potatoes are revered in food circles for their versatility and nutritional value, but whatever power William he hoped they would have in this fight did not materialise.
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He was arrested and sentenced to one year in the El Dorado County Jail.